Jimmie Durham, instructions for use. While the announcement of his death, at age 81, in his sleep on November 17, leaves the art world knocked out, so soon after the death of artist Etel Adnan. Jimmie Bob Durham is an American conceptual art myth, a sculptor who composed visual found object rebuses, an essayist and a poet. A civil rights activist for African Americans and American Indians, during the 1960s and 1970s. Also a storyteller who for a long time put forward his Cherokee blood, despite his pale blue eyes, which representatives of these representatives fiercely dispute. tribes and the Central Committee of the American Indian Movement (AIM). Poetic license, no doubt.
“A man appears at the edge of a forest. He comes out, shopping bags in hand. He walks through a meadow strewn with rubbish, observes them, takes them in hand and evaluates them, preserves some of them. Plastic bags are blown to the ground by the wind. He walks along a fence. Under his footsteps lie bones. He crosses
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